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by mikorym 7y ago
Sloppy, really. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think math is separated into two parts—the scientific and the language—and the scientific part is where I think mathematicians show a lot of variation. The language has to be standard, otherwise it could be ambiguous or even incorrect. Fo
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by mikorym 7y ago
While I appreciate the objective behind the study, it's kind of disappointing that it is even done. "Serious" mathematicians are hopefully like "serious" coders, they read the math and when they happen to meet the p
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by mikorym 7y ago
No, but here is a way to WhatsApp yourself. Create a group with one other member. Delete that member. Now you can send messages (or media) to yourself and only you will receive it. It's useful for storing notes or pictures or whatever.
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by mikorym 7y ago
Reach-ability in graphs is quite an interesting topic in applied sciences. For example, recently I had to figure out (nontrivial) investment proportions in funds and realised two things: 1. You can use a weighted DAG [1] and sum the product
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by mikorym 7y ago
If you call it Teflon, would you be less scared of the name?
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by mikorym 7y ago
The town where I went to primary school in somewhat rural South Africa had, for quite a few years, a stand/shack smack in the middle of the town and on the side of the main road (if it can be called that). The shack had a big sign: &qu
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by mikorym 7y ago
Sorry but I keep forgetting about the damned asterisk: (7 * 24)/4 * (5/7)
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by mikorym 7y ago
Another (psuedoscientific) argument [1] in favour of 30 hour weeks: 30 = (7 24)/4 (5/7) On each day, you should have half the day for "resting porposes". Of the remaining half, you should work only half of that. Finally,
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by mikorym 7y ago
This question only worries me in the context of philosophy or in the context of the developed world. My experience, being born on the African continent and with my (known) family having lived on the African continent for 10 generations, tea
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by mikorym 7y ago
Although we have machines that now cut and bind books, the best book binding (and most aesthetic) are done by hand by enthusiasts on, e.g., Reddit. Moreover, such book binders don't feel threatened by machines, I would think, like how
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by mikorym 7y ago
That's interesting. In South Africa, at the moment, they also don't have widely available ink tank printers. The two main ones sold at most shops are Epson and Canon, with Epson having the most aggressive marketing campaign of the
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* although
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Altohugh I am not particularly upset about it, South African scientists have often not gotten recognition and even the white males ones! [1] [2] I think the discrimination is worse in a way than described in the article. But maybe that touc
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by mikorym 7y ago
Oh yeah and more more thing: 1% on it's own is exponential, but the key fact is that in logistic growth the exponential factor (or rather compound factor) goes down over time... much like changing the s over time in the above example
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by mikorym 7y ago
Maybe you can answer this question for me: Why does HP not have a good ink tank printer based on the shell of something like the HP OfficeJet 3830? It seems like Canon, Epson and Brother are the only real current options for ink tank /
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by mikorym 7y ago
Indeed! One has got to appreciate how words in the English language are not always (read: never) the best way to describe math. By the way, this reminds of the series 1/n^s and the fact that the sum converges exactly for s > 1, but
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by mikorym 7y ago
One more point to sort this out. Is Laplacian always that modified adjacency matrix in graph theory, or does it mean something else as well?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Sorry, sorry. You are right, I am thinking of the Jacobian. What does the comment mean then? > "Also, apparently the Laplacian Transform can be used to convert Calculus derivative equations into algebraic ones..."
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by mikorym 7y ago
The logarithmic scale is not a problem. I did not say linear; I said logistic. On a logarithmic scale, an exponential function is linear, making the test easy!
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by mikorym 7y ago
> the human population growing exponentially This is not true as of 2019. The only continent that possibly does not show logistic growth (yet) is Africa. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#/
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by mikorym 7y ago
It should say Laplacian in OP's post, not Laplacian Transform (if I am not mistaken). The Laplacian is a matrix of (partial) derivitives and is used for the equational conversion.
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by mikorym 7y ago
We hedge against old buildings then. [1] [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Universi... Quite the concrete jungle...
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by mikorym 7y ago
I don't think the current system is abysmal or anything like that—I don't think I am that vociferous or opinionated—but what I do think is that in your first and second year it is likely that you don't know yet whether you wa
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by mikorym 7y ago
I also don't think it's obvious [1], but that it could seem obvious from the way some mathematics (ahem, calculus) is taught to students. [1] My first question will be whether your "circle" is of cardinality of R or of
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by mikorym 7y ago
As sets of real numbers, yes. However, if you have an approapriate metric (in this case I think cuts are area preserving) then you can't. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox#... . Lo
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by mikorym 7y ago
This dichotomy seems almost insurmountable today. 1) Mathematics majors should be taught how to prove. 2) Engineering/Applied Math majors should be taught to use. Fortunately or unfortunately they take the same classes. Personally, I t
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think the question is: 1) are they getting tax breaks because they are giving money towards affordable housing; or 2) are they getting tax breaks anyway and then choosing to give this money towards affordable housing?
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by mikorym 7y ago
If you combine this with the CO2 capturing aspects of concrete itself as mentioned by other commentators, would that mean you can actually have a net CO2 level decrease?
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by mikorym 7y ago
The way I understand it is that we just don't want an erratic climate with lots of mood swings. By the way, on the topic of a changing climate and especially when climate at x changes to y, y changes to z, changes to etc; that is what

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